Personal
Defined as a person who is experienced and knowledgeable about the operation and has the authority to correct or shut down the operation until it is safe.
What is a Competent Person?
Eye protective equipment worn during welding operations.
What are Flash Goggles?
An agency of the U.S. Department of labor.
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
A ladder made of two straight ladders that are connected so that the overall length can be adjusted.
What is an Extension Ladder?
The damage that can be done to eyes after even brief exposure to ultraviolet light from arc welding.
What is Flash Burn?
A work area large enough for a person to work, but arranged in such a way that an employee must physically enter the space to perform work.
What is a Confined Space?
A formal procedure for taking equipment out of service and ensuring that it cannot be operated until a qualified person has removed the device.
What is Lockout/Tagout?
A document that must accompany any hazardous substances: identifies it, gives the exposure limits and hazards, the physical/chemical characteristics, safe handling and use, and specific control measures.
What is a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)?
A nonadjustable ladder.
What is a Straight ladder?
A narrow excavation made below the surface of the ground that is generally deeper than it is wide, with a max width of 15ft.
What is a Trench?
A person who has the knowledge and experience to solve or prevent problems relating to a certain subject, work, or project.
What is a Qualified Person?
Equipment or clothing designed to prevent or reduce injuries.
What are Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
The organization of a company's management, including reporting procedures, supervisory responsibility, and administration.
What is a Management System?
A self-supporting ladder consisting of two elements hinged at the top.
What is a Stepladder?
The temperature at which fuel gives off enough gases (vapors) to burn.
What is Flash Point?
Keeping your work area clean and free of scraps or spills is known as this.
What is Housekeeping?
A device that provides clean, filtered air for breathing, no matter what is in the surrounding air.
What is a Respirator?
The OSHA standard that requires contractors to educate employees about hazardous chemicals on the job site and how to work with them safely.
What is the Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom)?
Capable of easily igniting and rapidly burning.
What is Combustible/Flammable?
Work done near a hazard, but not actually in contact with it.
What is Proximity Work?
What color are informational signs, safety signs, caution signs, and danger signs?
What is blue, white and green, yellow and black, red, white and black?
A protective screen set up around a welding operation designed to safeguard workers not directly involved in that operation.
What is a Wielding Shield?
Employers who violate the regulations can be...
What is fined?
An elevated platform for workers and materials.
What is a Scaffold?
A confined space that has been evaluated and found to have actual or potential hazards.
What is a Permit-required confined space?